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| type = [[Geological formation]]
| age = [[Late Cretaceous]] ([[Santonian]] - [[Campanian]])
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| country = [[Kazakhstan]]
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The '''Bostobe Svita''' is a geological [[Formation (geology)|formation]] in Kazakhastan whose strata date back to the [[Late Cretaceous]]. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="cretaceousdistribution">Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Late Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 593-600. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.</ref>

==Vertebrate paleofauna==
* '''Theropods''':
** Troodontidae indet.<ref name=Bostobe>Averianov, A., 2016. Frontal bones of non-avian theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian-?Campanian) Bostobe Formation of the northeastern Aral Sea region, Kazakhstan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 53 (2) 168-175. http://cjes.geoscienceworld.org/content/53/2/168</ref>
** Therizinosauria indet.<ref name=Bostobe/>
** Ornithomimosauria indet.<ref name=Bostobe/>
** Tyrannosauroidea indet.
* '''Ornithopods''':
** ''[[Aralosaurus|Aralosaurus tuberiferus]]''
** ''[[Arstanosaurus|Arstanosaurus akkurganensis]]''
** ''[[Batyrosaurus|Batyrosaurus rozhdestvenskyi]]''
* '''Pterosaurs''':
** ''[[Aralazhdarcho|Aralazhdarcho bostobensis]]''<ref>A. O. Averianov (2004), “New Data on Cretaceous Flying Reptiles (Pterosauria) of Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan,” ''Paleontol. Zh.'', No. 4, 73–83 (''Paleontol. J.'' '''38''' (4), 426–436)</ref>
** ''[[Samrukia|Samrukia nessovi]]''
* '''Mammals''':
** ''[[Beleutinus|Beleutinus orlovi]]''
** ''[[Zhalmouzia|Zhalmouzia bazhanovi]]''
** ''[[Parazhelestes]]'' sp.<ref>A. O. Averianov, J. D. Archibald, P. P. Skutschas and G. J. Dyke. 2014. New mammal remains from the Late Cretaceous Bostobe Formation (northeast Aral Sea Region, Kazakhstan). ''[[Palaeoworld]]'' 23:314-320.</ref>
* '''Turtles''':
** ''[[Khunnuchelys|Khunnuchelys lophorhothon]]'' (a [[Trionychidae|trionychid]] [[turtle]], known from remains initially thought to belong to a hadrosaurid dinosaur and classified as cf. ''[[Lophorhothon]] sp'')<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Igor G. Danilov|author2=Natasha S. Vitek|author3=Alexander O. Averianov|author4=Vadim N. Glinskiy|last-author-amp=yes |year=2014 |title=A new softshelled trionychid turtle of the genus ''Khunnuchelys'' from the Upper Cretaceous Bostobe Formation of Kazakhstan |journal=Acta Palaeontologica Polonica |volume=in press |issue= |pages= |doi=10.4202/app.2013.0045 }}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Paleontology}}
* [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]]
* [[List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kazakhstan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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[[Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia]]
[[Category:Geology of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Paleontology in Kazakhstan]]

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